Willamette Presents Its 20th Annual Jazz Festival

Willamette University will hold its 20th annual Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 10, featuring 28 bands. Performances start at 8:30 a.m. culminating with the headliner ­ jazz bassist Ray Brown ­ at 8 p.m. in Smith Auditorium.

All activities during the day are free and open to the public. Tickets are needed for the evening performance with Ray Brown. Prices are as follows: $18 for first-floor reserved seating, $15 for balcony seating, $12 for first-floor wing seating, and $10 for general admission first-floor seating. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Willamette's Music Department at 503-370-6255.

Prior to the evening performance, Ray Brown will give a personal perspective on jazz music at 4 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. This presentation is free and open to the public.

In addition to Ray Brown, the evening concert will feature the Willamette Jazz Band and two outstanding jazz bands from earlier in the day.

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Willamette Law Dean Receives High Honor In Comparative Law

Willamette University College of Law Dean Symeon Symeonides was elected as a titular, or life, member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, one of the world's most prestigious international legal organizations.

The Academy has 70 titular members worldwide, with seven from the United States including Symeonides. The other six U.S. members are from Harvard, Columbia, University of Michigan, University of California at Davis and University of California at Berkeley.

The Academy, founded at The Hague in 1924, plays an important role in stimulating research in comparative law throughout the world. As part of this role, the Academy holds an International Congress of Comparative Law every fours years. Symeonides, dean of the College of Law since July of 1999, will be a presenter at the upcoming conference in Brisbane, Australia, in 2002.

In addition to becoming a titular member of the Academy, Symeonides has also recently been re-elected for a record fourth time as secretary of the American Society of Comparative Law. The Society used to limit officers to two two-year terms. However, the Society amended its by-laws so as to permit Symeonides to be re-elected a third and, most recently, a fourth term.

The American Society of Comparative Law will hold its 2001 annual meeting at Willamette University College of Law. As many as 70 professors of comparative law from throughout the United States and abroad will be attending this meeting on Oct. 11-13, 2001.

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art to Exhibit Works on Oregon Landscape Artist Carl Hall

Willamette University Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents an exhibition on the work of Carl Hall (American, 1921-1996), a highly regarded Salem painter and teacher who captured the light, color and texture of the Willamette Valley and Oregon Coast.

A retrospective exhibition of Hall's work, "Eden Again: The Art of Carl Hall," will open on Jan. 27, 2001, and continue through March 24, in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery.

Carl Hall was born in Washington, D.C., raised in Detroit, Mich., and educated at the Meinzinger School of Art in Detroit. He served in the Philippines and Okinawa during World War II and moved to Oregon in 1946. Hall joined the faculty at Willamette University in 1948, where he taught for nearly 40 years and influenced several generations of artists. For Hall, the Oregon landscape represented a place of astonishing beauty and magic that he sought to capture in paint.

The exhibition, organized by Roger Hull, professor of art history at Willamette University and a friend and former colleague of the artist, will attempt to place Hall's work within the context of his times. The exhibition will include work that spans a 60-year period and will feature a number of early works that have not been seen for nearly six decades, including "Interlochen, Michigan," 1940, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and "Cradles," 1947, from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Objects have been drawn from public and private collections in Oregon, Michigan, New York, Indiana and Massachusetts for this exhibition.

This exhibition will be accompanied by an 80-page catalogue written by Hull. This catalogue will feature an extensive essay on the artist, 66 color and black/white illustrations, a selected biography of the artist and an extensive bibliography for further reading. The exhibition catalogue will retail for $19.95 and will be available at the Hallie Ford Museum Store.

A handful of Hall's pieces will also be displayed in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center during the run of the major exhibition. To introduce the exhibition, Hull will present an illustrated slide lecture on Carl Hall's work on Jan. 26 from 5-6 p.m. in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art located at 700 State Street in Salem. The galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students over 13 years old. Children 12 and under are admitted for free. Tuesday is a free day for all admissions. For further information or directions, call 503-370-6855.

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Willamette Leaders Rising in the Pack

Four Willamette alumni were named in the January 2001 Oregon Business magazine article "Leaders of the Pack: 20 who are rising to the top."

Willamette had the most alumni listed of any Oregon school, with four out of 20.

• Brian Cole M'87
• Grace Crunican M'79
• Eric Friedenwald-Fishman '88
• and Mitchell Taylor '83 were all listed as up-and-coming Oregon leaders.

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